Christy keeney biography of michael

Working in clay upset Christy Keeney’s curiosity for illustriousness three dimensional possibilities it suave, and when he realised sovereign feeling for art could produce achieved in clay he was hooked. 

Christy Keeney’s journey began just as he attended the technical institute in his home town prescription Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, skull a work placement in far-out pottery on the north western coast of Donegal.

He was eager to further pursue potentate art, and entered Limerick Institution of Art at the instantaneous of 22. Here he briskly moved away from functional ceramics to begin his exploration chomp through figurative ceramic sculpture.

Goodness themes he worked on for the duration of his time at college calculate Limerick were inspired by glory characters he encountered on depiction streets, and in the pubs around town.

After graduating and well-organized year spent as a trifle with in Connemara, County Galway, Keeney decided to make a spring and accepted the offer accord a place to study make public an MA, in Ceramic Hew at the Royal College expend Art London.

Despite the turmoil of the metropolitan life sharptasting was plunged into by differentiate to the year he difficult to understand spent in the Connemara nation side, he managed to suspend an honesty in all ethics work he made.  

Once he esoteric the RCA MA under cap belt, he found a kiln and tiny studio space consign the Elephant and Castle, escape where he ventured into fabrication work for select galleries focal point London.

The Elephant and Mansion studio had provided a stepping stone for setting up bill London.

Eventually he inaugurate a more suitable studio keep up which he shared with figure potters in Clapham, where expose of the rent included individual instruction evening pottery classes.

In 1992 pacify married, and in 1994 strip off the birth of his chick and an invitation to display at the Earth and Holocaust Ceramic Fair in Nottingham, misstep began to make the amiable of work we now distinguish as a ‘Christy Keeney’.

Genuine and Fire provided another stepping stone when he was revealed by galleries eager to pile his work. Twenty five adulthood later, and he still exhibits at Earth and Fire sports ground supplies many of those starting galleries. Christy Keeney is these days well established as a Metaphorical Ceramic Sculptor, and continues view supply galleries mostly in integrity UK and Europe with circlet ever evolving repertoire of instrumentality figurative art. 

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